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Can Eating Healthy Be Bad for Your Health?

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Breadfruit, the Holy Grail of Grocery Shopping

Lester Young electrified the jazz world with his dexterity and imagination.

Lester Young Turns 100

Billie Holiday’s favorite musician, jazz great Lester “Prez” Young brought a hip, freewheeling sensibility to his saxophone playing

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Cooking with the Season

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Ramadan—A Moveable Fast

According to The Breadfruit Institute at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, breadfruit grows in almost 90 countries.

Cooking With Breadfruit

The tropical fruit is a daily food staple in cultures where the tree grows, including Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America

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Fresh Figs, and Bugs?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson is considered by many to be the quintessential drug-induced book of the 1970s.

Great Road Trips in American Literature

From Twain to Kerouac to Bryson, writers have found inspiration in hitting the road and traveling the United States

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Ask Smithsonian 2017

Is it Safe to Eat Off Vintage Plates?

Answers for the flea market picker

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Beach Reading for Food Nerds

The diamond’s current setting, once described by Evalyn Walsh McLean as a “frame of diamonds,” was originally created by Pierre Cartier and has remained largely unchanged since the early 1900s.

A New Chapter in the Hope Diamond’s History

The National Museum of Natural History’s most famous gem gets a modern update

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Five Ways to Eat Tomatoes

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Woodstock—How to Feed 400,000 Hungry Hippies

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Sheep, Chicks and Geese Scurry at the County Fair

As photographer Dan Nelken has catalogued, the county fair is the place for family farms to showcase their prized livestock

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The Joys of Country Fair Food

What are your favorite fair foods? We’ll share our memories if you’ll share yours

A freelance humorist gets a lesson on Darwinism from his daughter.

Darwin for Dads

A daughter tries to help one member of an endangered species survive

Katz (today, in SoHo) pursued figurative painting even in the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was at its height.

Alex Katz Is Cooler Than Ever

At 82, the pathbreaking painter known for stylized figurative works has never been in more demand

Mary Van Cline's Cycles of Relationship of Time, 2000.

What’s Up

The 11 minutes of powered descent to the lunar surface was Buzz Aldrin's most memorable moment in the lunar module.

Q and A: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, reflects on the Apollo 11 mission

The Smithsonian's Feather Identification Laboratory quickly determined that Canada geese had disabled US Airways Flight 1549.

From the Castle

Ways We Serve

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